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[I can only speak for what I experienced personally, and what facilities I was in and passed thru along the way. It varies from place-to-place and state-to-state based on many factors]

Assaulted no. Did I have to fight? You bet. Inside, if you don't protect yourself and/or stand up for what's rightfully yours then you're not going to have a good time at all. At some point someone who is bigger, stronger, tougher, whatever than you _IS_ going to attempt to take all your shit. It's more of a test than anything else, to see what you will let people get away with. If you don't stand up for yourself, well, prison is full of predators especially if you're in a medium or higher security facility. This does not apply if your charges are for anything to do with hurting children or extreme violence against women -- in that case they're never going to stop coming... ever.

Word from the older guys who had been in there for a long time is that prison isn't what it once was in the 70's and 80's. Bad inmate on inmate assaults is almost always gang related, forcible rape doesn't really happen [at least in the facilities I was in and passed thru along the way] because they don't really have to do that -- there are plenty of willing participants (with exceptions for internal gang retaliation, but it would have to be something major). Another big change that reduced a lot of violence was they started giving people additional criminal charges, "outside cases" to use prison parlance, for crimes they commit inside such as stabbings, murders, serious contraband, etc. instead of just doing internal institutional discipline. This also cut way down on inmate vs. corrections officer violence -- stabbing a guard now became attempted murder of a law enforcement official -- an A felony, 20 more years to your sentence minimum.

That's not to say it's fun or peaceful or anything, it's still prison, still a city within walls segregated intensely by race and where you grew up, and there are some truly messed up people in there. It's 90% boredom 5% loneliness, and 5% small bouts of intense violence. But if you carry yourself with dignity, don't do anything stupid, and don't back down when challenged (particularly over something petty) you'll be allright.

I wish it was just a soul sucking corporate job. At least you get paid more than 33 cents an hour for doing those jobs. but alas, no this was actual prison, and nothing so luxurious as Bernie Madoff's Camp Fluffy. This was prison prison in Michigan City, Indiana (and the last 6 months I was transferred to Pendelton, IN). I was down for 3 years of a 6 year sentence for 2 charges: Conspiracy to Distribute or Manufacture, and Trafficking in a Controlled Substance. This was before they switched from a 'Class A-B-C-D' felony classification system to a 'Level 1-2-3-4' system, so my 2 charges were a Class C and a Class B (effectively a Level 3 and a Level 2 nowadays). TLDR; I was a drug dealer. For a long time. I was extremely good at it. I sold all of them, but the ones I ended up being charged with were Heroin (at least 10 grams, which bumped it up from a C to a B class) and 80mg OxyContins ("green hornets").

Incidentally, at the time, the laws were such that if my house had been located 200 feet closer to a school than it was, I would most likely still be in prison. I got lucky there, the laws were "within 1000 feet of a school" and my house was somewhere between 1100-1200, and even though I absolutely NEVER sold anything out of my house it would not have mattered. The prosecutor went so far as to send surveyors to my property and dig up the blueprints of my house from City Hall and measure out the property lines and distances. I think I saw steam shoot out of that lady's ears when my lawyer read the surveyor's report in court. She was pissed.

How so?

thanks I'll check that out

That sounds like... a fantastic idea! Why would they kill that off?! No easy way to inject ads into I guess (at least that people would be willing to put up with).

I see Google Reader mentioned a lot when virtually anything RSS-related comes up. I missed out on the whole RSS craze (prison will do that to you). But I have always wondered -- so many people lament the fact that Google killed it -- why hasn't anyone forked/cloned it's UI and feature-set? You don't want to just straight up copy it and wake the Google lawyers from their nests obviously, but why not make something that works the same way? Seems like that would be a popular project among the open source crowd.

And who is the arbiter of what is considered 'offensive' and what isn't? The government?

I have always just said "we are moving to an area that you do not service" and that's the end of that.

The worst is at the freakin' grocery store. If you have to go to the aisle with a cashier, they ask for your store-brand 'saver[slash-spyware] card'. If you tell them you don't have one it's usually followed by a "would you like to sign up..." "No, thank you." and then a "Can I have your phone number" at that point I'm annoyed. I am just trying to buy some Golden Grahams here lady you don't need my phone number, no I'm not giving you that.

I actually had one poor girl look at me like a lost puppy at this point. I don't think she'd ever had anyone decline before - and that scares the hell out of me. She had no idea what to do, the register wouldn't continue the transaction without inputting a phone number. After a few seconds of her staring at me bewildered I had to suggest she try just holding her finger down on the 1 key.

I can almost guarantee you Floyd Mayweather does not know what an ICO is. Nor does he likely understand what Cryptocurrency is on anything other than a supremely basic level. Mayweather cares about one thing: money. This company probably payed him a metric shit-ton of it to promote their ICO in a tweet, that is all.

Floyd Mayweather can barely read. I''m not exaggerating, it's actually kind of sad. But, on the other hand Floyd Mayweather doesn't have to read. He spends his life training and making more money in one night than many of us probably will in 20 years.

First I've heard of them (but I'm not any kind of expert). Are they good? I usually just hear the usual suspects mentioned such as iXSystems and Supermicro. Linux guys will mention one called PogoLinux every once in a while also

Ugh. So many terms that when I actually say out loud and try to be serious I throw up in the back of my mouth a little.

Is there room in this space for a new no-nonsense vendor? Someone who cuts out all the goddamn middlemen and just asks what hardware you want, how you want it configured, and quotes you a frickin price without all the bullshit?

After I first read about it I did some light cursory Googling around, and the press coverage that was the most detailed at the time was @ The Register [1]. Although they report the number to be ~317k, they do not disclose a source -- but I chose to go with it anyway.

To be honest I forgot that folks around here can get their panties in a real bunch over the titles of submissions -- and I'm not saying they're wrong, but in my mind the title is far less important than the actual meat of the issue and the discussion/debate that it (hopefully) generates here on HN. However, there are rules for the titles, and it wasn't my intention to break them. It was my mistake.

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1: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/29/eu_dumps_300000_uko...

Hi, I submitted this article (and it's original title). FWIW (not that you asked), but I don't mind at all if the title of the submission is changed. I fully understand why you have the rules, and it was not my intention to go against them. IMHO, the 'title' of the submission is far, far less important than the actual meat of the issue, and in the context of HN, the entire point of submission, at least to me, is to foster some [hopefully] interesting dialog, discussion, and debate (while remaining civilized of course, we're all adults here, everyone should act like it)

And AM4 ("zen" architecture, not threadripper) is a _very_ similar looking and feeling ZIF socket - total pin count might be different, I'm not sure.

(i'm past the time in which I can edit my original post)

I remembered incorrectly, that PiMoroni kit does not include the 3 servo motors, you need to buy those separately along with the RPi camera module. Luckily the servos required are super common little blue servos that are all over eBay and such for dirt cheap.

OpenVPN yes. I have my router hosting the openvpn, but I think you could do that on the RPi as well. I can't say for _sure_, as I haven't tried it personally, but I think there's more than enough juice on an RPi to host all of that, especially if it's only ever going to handle 1 or 2 simultaneous connections.

There's an "official" raspberry pi camera module with mature libraries already written, and I believe it comes in both a regular IR and a No-IR version for night-ish vision.

There are also a ton of different 3D-printable mounts and jigs for them on sites like thingiverse and instructables.

My favorite[1] comes as a kit with the jig, 3 servo motors, and an add-on board for a raspi. Using this I have a live-feed camera that can rotate up to 180 degress on 3 axis that I can control from anywhere in the world using my phone as long as my internet connection is up at home. All hosted locally, even the live feed frontend. It's not hard to build or set up either, took me a lazy day and I'm far from a good coder.

1: https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/raspberry-pi/products/...

Woah! snips.ai looks interesting. I might just fool around with this for a weekend project. thanks for the link!

Really? That was a pretty specific question, and you were looking for (and would accept) a vague answer? It doesn't matter anyway, again, they have no incentive to tell you that. vague or not vague. Nobody that knows the answer to that question is dumb enough to answer that question (i would hope).

I suddenly deduced you were looking for specific descriptions a little ways up this comment tree where you asked the question: "As an ex-employee could you please also confirm whether or not the average employee is able to access user data, and what kinds of permissions (if any) this requires?"

I'll sell you all the bubblegum you can chew for some stock. I don't even care _what_ stock.

I think what you're asking for here you're never going to get. Nobody who works there currently will tell you because they'd get fired (and everyone has bills to pay). People who worked there in the past aren't going to tell you because #1) it's bad practice/bad op-sec/it's uncouth/whatever, #2) if they did it would negatively impact their future prospects and reputation. Nobody has any incentive to hand out definitive numbers or break it down into "X-dev-team #1 has access to X, Y, and Z"

At the end of the day, the data is there - they have it. Possession is arguably MORE than 9/10 of the law in this situation. They can access it whenever they want -- trivially if they are rogue or have no concern for keeping their job. but this is true of just about any huge company that employs a lot of people-- but they're not going to say they can. Why would they?

Where did I suggest that the FBI do anything? But I wouldn't go so far as to think of them as the "poor Feds"

No argument from me on the people in Congress, they forgot that they're supposed to work for the people long ago. but I'm afraid that I don't think it will matter who is in there, if I'm being honest about it. You're not going to get a room full of a bunch of old rich white people to agree on anything #1, but the real problem is money. I hate to use a sound byte from the talking heads on a 24 hr cable news channel, but we really do 'need to get the money out of politics' -- anything short of that is pissing in the wind.

So take it off the banned list. Legalize it. Take the power & profits away from the criminal element. Stop wasting money sending otherwise perfectly normal people to prison for years for having a god damn plant. The whole reason cannabis is on the list in the first place is because Harry J Anslinger was a racist prick.

Ain't nobody hurting you by smoking pot. How many people drink every day and kill innocent people in car crashes? Nobody is OD'ing on pot either, given that it's physically impossible. Nobody is out committing robberies to get money to buy pot. More people have been killed by Uber's robot cars than will ever be killed by smoking pot on their couch at home.

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that, in the last several months, DDG's top search results have been getting much better? I almost always find the most relevant links at the top of the first page, and when directly comparing their results to Google's, DDG results may be in a slightly different order but they are still really close.

If I may make a suggestion, and I'm not sure what your use-case plans are for it -- maybe this isn't feasible for you, but if you absolutely MUST use Twitter, do not install it on your phone. Keep it to just the desktop website version. My reasons for suggesting this are three-fold: 1) Twitter at it's core is, IMO, nothing but a distraction. You will be less productive and less interactive with real people in real life. 2) The Internet Fuckwad Theory is in full effect in the Twitter-verse at all times. Depending on your personality, it may very well make you more depressed/mad/whatever -- it's not going to change your daily life for the better at any rate. 3) Twitter tracks you & harvests your data, and if you install it on your phone they will have much more data about/from you -- and we (as in, everyone on the planet) do not need any more tracking/spying/snooping/etc.

Advertising is dead? Come on "<x> is dead" gets said all the time about a wide range of subjects and is almost universally bullshit. If advertising is dead why are companies still shelling out millions for 30 second TV spots during the super bowl? How are some kids are paying off their student loans by making YouTube videos? I agree that a revenue model that's based on advertising needs to be thought long and hard about, but 'dead' -- nah. I doubt that advertising will ever truly die, unfortunately they've figured out how to hack human brains and emotions with it.

You're forgetting the $1200+ PC to plug it into (that's @ MSRP, if you were to build it today it's more like $2k)

Call me when it's a wireless & self-contained unit. Until then, I just cannot honestly see it taking off in the commercial space. Industrial & enterprise-ish use maybe, but to regular consumers hell no. It's still a mess of wires and sensor installation, not to mention you still need that high-end gaming PC (and with the prices of GPUs being what they are it's a no-go for the vast majority of people).

And how does that several hundred thousand dollar story go? (if you have time, and care to elaborate, that is) I'm curious.